Safety lamp-burner.



C. T. SIEBERT.

SAFETY LAMP BURNER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 17, 1012.

1,079,190. Patented N0v.18, 1913.

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wi/lmeoow CARL T. SIEBERT, OF EAST PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAFETY LAMP-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 17, 1912.

' ateuted Nov. 18, '1 913. Serial No. 704,089.

To (all rv/1.0m 2'15 may concern lie it known that I, CARL T. Summer, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 111 Safety Lamp-Burners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to lamps and more particularly to devices for automatically extinguishing a lamp when the latter is tilted from its normal position.

The object of this invention is to provide a mechanism which can be applied to the usual styles of oil burners for lamps, without requiring any radical change therein.

Another object is to provide a device of the nature referred to which will be comparatively simple in its construction, and without parts, such as springs, etc., which are apt to get out of order.

A further object is to have the device arranged so that it will readjust itself automatically when the lamp is returned to its normal position.

A still further object is to have the device arranged so that it may be readily tested by hand.

Many other objects of this invention will become apparent as it is more fully set forth.

The device embodying the invention referred to in the specification consists in general of suitable weights and a closure for covering the wick of the lamp to which it is attached. The weights operate the closure when the lamp is tilted to any dangerous angle and are so arranged with respect to the closure and burner parts that they can not become separated from them, although they have freedom in their movement.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1, is a view in elevation of an embodiment of the invention attached to an ordinary type of oil lamp burner. Fig. 2, is a view partly in section, showing the relative position of the parts when the lamp is tilted. Fig. 3, is a detail plan view of the attachment used in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

In the constructions shown in the draw ings the reference character 1 represents the body proper of the burner and is of any well known form, suitable recesses 2 being provided therein to receive and hold the lower portions of the weights 3, that serve to actuate the extinguishing element when the lamp burner is tilted.

In Figs. 1, 9 and 3, the extinguishing element consists of a means let adapted to close over the wick tube 5 of the burner. Fastened to the sides of the jaws 14 are a pair of wings 8 which are formed with recesses therein alined with those in the body, so that the weights 3 will be secured between the body and wings. The tilting of the burner causes the weights, which are preferably metal balls, to move the sleeve over the wick J of the burner and extinguish it if it is lighted (see Fig. 2). The arrows shown on the drawings indicate the direction of the movement of the wings and jaws. It will be noted that the amount of the movement of these parts is restricted sufficiently to prevent the weights from becoming detached from the burner.

The journals 10 and pins 11 are provided for pivotally holding the elements, and it will be noted that these in their normal positions are angularly spaced from the wick tube (see Fig. 1).

The cap of the burner is indicated by 12, and the wick handle by 13. The burner may be threaded interiorly or exteriorly or arranged in any other suitable mannor for its attachment to a lamp base, and any usual type of clamp may be used to attach a lamp chimney on the body proper.

It is obvious that it is not desired to limit this a 'i flication for patent to the particular construction shown or in any other way otherwise than limited by the prior art, as many modifications of this invention may be made without departing from the principles thereof and coming within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is In combination with a lamp burner of the class described having stamped-in quasilIOI'IllSPllCIiCZll recesses therein on either side of the wick tube and journal pieces formed from material of the burner adjacent to the end portions of the tube, an attachment comprising jaws having hinge portions or pins rotatable in the journal pieces, said jaws being adapted to close on and about the wick tube of the burner, a wing angularly attached t0 and integral with each of said jaws and provided with a quasi-hemispherical recess therein alined with a quasi-hemispherical recess in the burner, each wing being adapted to come into contact with the burner adjacent to the recess thereof when the attachment is in open position, and weighted balls for actuating the wings and thereby the jaws, said balls being disposed in the quasi-hemispherical recesses and closely fitting the same and those in the wings so as to roll up the sides thereof and actuate the Wings when the burner is tilted out of its normal Vertical position, said attachment and recesses being arranged to not increase 15 the relative heights of the burner and its attachment above normal.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL T. 'SIEBERT.

Witnesses:

RICHARD BAIERLEIN, GEO. V. MILLIGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of I'atents,

Washington, D. C. 

